Left-Extremist Endeavours

Indications of left-extremist
endeavours of JD/JL
7. "Jungdemokraten/Junge Linke" (JD/JL - "Young
Democrats/Young Leftists")
Founded: 1992
Headquarters: Bonn (National Executive Secretariat in
Berlin)
Members: 12,000 (figure provided by the organization
itself)
Publications: "tendenz" ("tendency"),
published on an irregular basis;
various regional publications of the Land
associations
The "Jungdemokraten/Junge Linke" (JD/JL - " Young Democrats/
Young Leftists") have become a permanent partner of left-wing
extremists within action alliances, but also in the context of militant
disruptive actions against government-sponsored events.
This organization which classifies itself as "radical-democratic",
was constituted in 1992 by the merger of the ""Deutsche Jungdemokraten"
(DJD - "Young Democrats of Germany") and the
"Marxistische Jugendvereinigung Junge Linke" ("Marxist Youth
Association Young Left") from the new [East German] Länder. The
JD/JL structure comprises a National (Federal) Association and
eleven, relatively independent, Land associations. The membership
figure of 12,000 given by the organization itself would seem
exaggerated.
Ideologically, the association is not homogeneous; it is a conglomorate
of Marxist, Marxist-Leninist, "anti-German" or "antinational",
autonomous and anarchistic-libertarian elements and
trends of left-wing extremism. Common to all of them, however,
is the rejection, for social-revolutionary reasons, of the free
democratic fundamental order. For instance, the policy programme
is based on the Marxist doctrine, according to which the
political structure of the polity ("social superstructure") has only
secondary importance as compared to the - allegedly decisive -
economic structure ("socio-economic basis"). Therefore, the programme
sees an "undemocratic balance of rule and power" as
the result of free-market structures ("capitalist production conditions").
"Young Democrats/Young Leftists consider overcoming of
capitalist production conditions to be a necessary step to
achieve all-embracing democratization of society, and
advocate nationalization of the means of production."
The Lower Saxony Land Association, the "Junge Linke Han-
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